pencil sharpener

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   a rotary implement for sharpening the point on pencils

   Broadersharpener

Questions about pencil sharpener

What does pencil sharpener mean?

pencil sharpener means "a rotary implement for sharpening the point on pencils".

Is pencil sharpener a common word?

pencil sharpener is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.